Using Slackware 9.0 and Latest Apache Versions.
I installed Apache in /usr/local/apache
Changed DocumentRoot in
/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
to /mnt/drive_d/htdocs
( which is a FAT drive ) and of course, restarted.

However, i've found that Apache is actually serving
the localhost index.html from /var/www/htdocs
and not from /mnt/drive_d/htdocs
as i expected.

Am confusted as to why is this happening?

Are you using virtualhosts ?

No I'm not using Virtual hosts. Its a very vanilla installation

What I don't understand is why are there two
'apachectl' files? One is in /usr/sbin and another is
in /usr/local/apache/bin.

I don't think Apache was included in the slackware 9.0 release, which i downloaded from the single CD ISO Image from slackware.

Could I have two different apache installations? Any way to tell if the apache in /usr/local/apache is the one that is actually running or another installation?? Of course, /usr/sbin is in my path, so when I login as root from the root directoty and run apachectl start, it is probably running the /usr/sbin. Where would this version keep its httpd.conf file?